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Account Takeover Attack Prevention
Organizations are more likely to be breached today than ever before, as cybercriminals shift tactics once again, using account takeovers (ATOs) to launch targeted email attacks. In fact, a recent Osterman Research survey reported that one in five organizations fell victim to an ATO-based email attack within the past 12 months. Attackers know that trusted email is the most effective way of...
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Six Steps to Email Security Best Practice
Thu, 01/13/2022
To help IT teams define a robust email security policy and determine what’s required from an email security solution, we’ve put together a new six-step guide.
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What Is Email Phishing? Protect Your Enterprise
Wed, 12/08/2021
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult.
What Is Email Phishing?
Phishing is when an attacker mimics a trusted person or brand in an attempt to steal sensitive information, or gain a foothold inside a company network. While phishing emails are by far the most popular, these...
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TLS Email Encryption: What It Is & How to Check if Your Email Is Using It
Mon, 06/21/2021
What exactly is TLS when it comes to email encryption?
TLS, or cybersecurity protocol Transport Layer Security first developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was designed to establish secure communications that provide both privacy and data security. Originally created from another encryption protocol called Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL...
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Email Security: Agari Delivers a Whole New Level of Actionable Insight to Outpace Threat Actors
Sun, 01/24/2021
CISOs and their teams are about to get some serious performance enhancers in their high-stakes race against email security threats.
According to the FBI, phishing campaigns, business email compromise (BEC) scams, and other advanced email attacks have resulted in $26 billion in business losses over the course of three years. Then 2020 happened.
With 75 million corporate employees even now still...
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What is Email Spoofing & How to Stop Attackers from Spoofing Your Email Address
Tue, 12/15/2020
What is email spoofing, how does it work, and why is it so dangerous to your company? We’ll explain everything you need to proactively stop attackers from spoofing your email address.
Email Spoofing: What Is It?
Email spoofing is when a fraudster forges an email header’s ‘From’ address to make it appear as if it was sent by someone else, usually a known contact like a high-level executive or...
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BEC Cash-out Methods: Email Fraudsters Experimenting With Alternative Approaches
Tue, 12/01/2020
Business email compromise (BEC) actors are exploring alternative cash-out methods for spiriting away the profits from their crimes.
Traditional bank accounts have long been the go-to choice for email scammers seeking to cash out the funds they've pilfered from organizations they victimize. Just since 2016, BEC groups have defrauded businesses out of more than $26 billion worldwide. But over the...
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BEC Attacks: What They Are, How to Spot Them, and What to Do
Tue, 11/10/2020
Here we’ll cover what BEC attacks are, how they work, what they usually look like, and how to handle them.
What is a BEC Attack?
7 Common BEC Attack Patterns
Top Identity Deception Techniques
How Can BEC Attacks be Stopped?
What's the Best Way to Recover From a BEC Attack?
What is a BEC Attack?
First, let me explain what a BEC attack is. In short, Business Email Compromise phishing occurs...
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Agari Fall ' 20 Release Boosts CISO Confidence in Enterprise DMARC Deployment
Tue, 09/29/2020
With cyber gangs leveraging business email compromise (BEC) attacks that actively exploit their targets' level of DMARC adoption, CISOs have been ratcheting up email security.
Until now, the need to dial up defenses against imposters posing as senior executives in email attacks has been increasingly forcing legitimate business correspondence into quarantine. The chain reaction kneecaps commerce,...
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DMARC: How Phishing Rings Can Use Your Email Authentication Controls Against You
Thu, 07/23/2020
In the first reported case of its kind, a phishing ring in Eastern Europe is exploiting companies' own Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) controls to impersonate CEOs in business email compromise (BEC) scams worth millions.As detailed in our new threat actor dossier on a group we call Cosmic Lynx, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) has identified the...
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Business Email Compromise: New Shift in BEC Threat Landscape Puts CISOs on Notice
Fri, 07/17/2020
A seismic shift in the email threat landscape has CISOs bracing for sophisticated new forms of business email compromise (BEC) scams, as phishing's center of gravity begins to tilt from West African email scammers toward Russian and Eastern European cybercrime lords.
As detailed in our new threat actor dossier on a threat group we call Cosmic Lynx, the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) has...
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Preventing Phishing Attacks: The Dangers of Two-Factor Authentication
Mon, 06/08/2020
Are you protecting your remote workers against an endless barrage of COVID-19 related phishing attacks by requiring 2-factor authentication (2FA) to log into employee email accounts? Smart move—just don't let it give you a false sense of security.
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COVID-19 Credential Phishing Scams: Feeding Off Coronavirus Fears
Tue, 04/28/2020
Since the beginning of February, we have seen more than a 3,000% increase in Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks targeting our customers. The spike in attacks is as logical as it is repugnant. With an estimated 75 million employees more reliant than ever on email during the largest "work-from-home experiment" in history, phishing scammers and other threat actors seem hellbent on exploiting...